August is usually, in general, a month with a lot of turbulence in the stock markets of the largest world capitals, even so, what happened yesterday, August 24, seems to have many investors worried; The instability in the Asian markets infected, and in what way, the European markets, creating a shadow of doubt that eclipsed, for a while, the slight but constant European economic recovery.
The keys to understanding this behavior seem to be the slowdown in the Chinese economy and other emerging economies together with the depreciation of many Asian currencies as well as the drop in oil prices and geopolitical instability in Arab countries and Greece.